MartaFounder
Building an assistant for dental clinics
AI Founders
The people building what comes next.
A community of founders, creatives and leaders learning to build with AI by doing it — in public, with other people beside them.
Madrid · Valencia · Barcelona · Bilbao
What is AI Founders
A community for people who make things happen.
AI Founders is where non-technical founders, creatives, operators and business leaders sit at the same table to build with AI.
We don't run training courses. We design processes, gatherings and challenges where people leave with something made — a prototype, a team, a decision taken.
It started as a tour across Spain. Today it is a network of builders in several cities, an applied innovation arm and a leadership programme.
Find your place
Three ways in.
Whether you come as an individual, a company or an institution, there is a door made for you.
Who shows up
Different people. The same curiosity.
Founders without a technical team, designers, product managers, teachers, operations people and executives who would rather try than opine.
What are you building?
The question that starts every conversation in the community.
DiegoOperations
Building a workflow that saves her 6 hours a week
LucíaDesigner
Building her first product without depending on anyone
JavierTeacher
Building classes where students prototype
AnaProduct Manager
Building the MVP that spent two years in a doc
PabloConsultant
Building internal tools for his team
It's already happening
Ideas turn into things when people move.
Every month someone presents something that didn't exist two weeks ago. Here is the open calendar.
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Madrid
Spain
Home base. BuildJams, dinners and coworking every month.
Barcelona
Spain
Product, design and lots of people building in parallel.
Valencia
Spain
A young community, fast prototypes.
Bilbao
Spain
Industry, technical talent and appetite to apply it.
Stories of change
What happens when someone sits down to build.
Events
A one-day BuildJam
She arrived with an idea written on her phone and no team.
She left with a working prototype and two people on the project.
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AI Impact
A corporate hackathon
A business challenge that had been stuck in committee for months.
48 hours later there were three prototypes and one moved to pilot.
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AI Leaders
An executive team
They talked about AI without ever having used it in their own work.
They finished with a prioritised list of processes and a prototype they built themselves.
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Where we stand
The tools will change.
The model that feels essential today will be old in a year. The people you build with won't be.
That's why we invest in community before stack: in judgement, in trust and in the habit of showing what you're making before it's finished.
AI expands what's possible. People decide what matters.
Built with the ecosystem
We don't do any of this alone.
Spaces, platforms and communities that open their doors, share their tools and bring their people to build with us.
Now at AI Founders
What's open right now.
Events
Coworking Café
Facilitated sessions at 9lives: focus blocks, peer feedback between builders and crossed ideas.
Madrid · monthly
AI Impact
Hackathons and buildathons
Real organisational challenges solved in an intensive format, with mentors and prototypes at the end.
On demand
Events
Dinners with AI leaders
A long table, few people and conversations that don't fit on a stage.
Madrid · limited seats
Who drives it
Built in public, from day one.
AI Founders is not an AI school. It's a community built on the conviction that artificial intelligence is learned by doing, teaching and sharing the process before it's perfect. Borja and Micaela drive it from that premise: build with others, without asking for permission.
Borja Vega
Founder
Ecosystem builder, educator and fractional CMO. He builds spaces where marketing, AI and entrepreneurship collide to create real things.
Micaela Villalobos
Co-Founder
Product Designer, mentor and community builder. She designs experiences where people learn by making, not just listening.
FAQ
The questions we get most often.
AI Founders is a Spanish community of non-technical founders, creatives, operators and business leaders who learn to build with artificial intelligence by doing it: through in-person events, buildathons and applied innovation programmes in Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona and Bilbao.